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Portrait of the Canadian Population in 2006 (Analysis series) - 97-551-XWE2006001

Revision 2

Revised date

March 26, 2008

Issue

An error was detected in the highlights section of the analytical document entitled 'Portrait of the Canadian population in 2006'. The figures in the 14th bullet were incorrect.

Resolution

The figures in the highlights section of the HTML at http://www12.statcan.ca/census-recensement/2006/as-sa/97-550/p1-eng.cfm were corrected as follows:

  • In the 2006 Census, Canada had six metropolitan areas with more than 1 million people: Toronto, Montréal, Vancouver, Ottawa - Gatineau and, for the first time, Calgary and Edmonton. Together, this "millionaire's club" had a total of 14.1 million residents, or 45% of Canada's population.

Page 5 of the PDF version was also updated with the above correction.

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Revision 1

Revised date

August 27, 2007

Issue

An error was detected in the definition of mid-size urban centre, or census agglomeration (CA), for the subprovincial population dynamics section of the analytical document entitled 'Portrait of the Canadian population in 2006'.

Resolution

The HTML subprovincial population dynamics section at http://www12.statcan.ca/census-recensement/2006/as-sa/97-550/p11-eng.cfm, has had the definition of mid-size urban centre, or census agglomeration (CA), replaced with the following:

A mid-size urban centre, or census agglomeration (CA), is an urban area that has an urban core with a population of at least 10,000, but is not a census metropolitan area (CMA). Canada now has 111 CAs, down from 113 in 2001. Six CAs have become CMAs since 2001: Barrie, Guelph, Brantford and Peterborough (Ontario), Moncton (New Brunswick) and Kelowna (British Columbia). Seven new CAs were established: Bay Roberts (Newfoundland and Labrador), Canmore (Alberta), Centre Wellington and Ingersoll (Ontario), Miramichi (New Brunswick), Okotoks (Alberta) and Salmon Arm (British Columbia). Two 2001 CAs were no longer CAs in 2006: Gander and Labrador City (Newfoundland and Labrador). Also, Magog (Quebec) is now part of the Sherbrooke CMA.

Page 33 of the PDF version was also updated with the above definition.